Re: [office-formula] STYLE and CURRENT again

[Andreas J Guelzow <aguelzow@math.concordia.ab.ca>]

On Sat, 2007-24-02 at 22:37 -0500, David A. Wheeler wrote:
> > Section "2.1.3 Large Group" has
> > 
> > | TODO: STYLE was not included in the list above, even though it's in
> > | OpenOffice.org 2, because it does not appear to be appropriate in
> > | a formula language.  If you believe it SHOULD be in this set of
> > | functions, please explain WHY.   The conditional formatting system is
> > | a more appropriate place for this kind of functionality, if it is
> > | needed.  OpenOffice.org is free to implement it for their own users, but
> > | it should not be imposed on others.
> 
> 
> Eike Rathke
> > that slipped my attention when we talked about CURRENT and STYLE before.
> > If we don't want STYLE also CURRENT (which I already started to define
> > in the latest draft) doesn't make much sense, except for few cases where
> > it may be used to avoid repeated time consuming calculations within one
> > formula without storing intermediate results in different cells, for
> > example =Expression*IF(CURRENT()<100;1;100) would give a classified
> > weighted result where Expression could involve a VLOOKUP(...).
> > 
> > If we don't want to include CURRENT and STYLE they would be stored as
> > ORG.OPENOFFICE.CURRENT and ORG.OPENOFFICE.STYLE
> > 
> > Opinions?
> 
> I'm happy to drop both CURRENT and STYLE from the spec.  Others?

I think that would be a good idea.

Andreas

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